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Hardback. Presents a Portrait of a Lady from the Poldi Pezzoli museum in Milan, one of the greatest masterpieces of Florentine portraiture from the latter half of the 15th century, investigates the art of the Pollaiolo brothers: Antonio, a goldsmith, painter and sculptor, and the most famous of the three; Piero, a painter; and Silvestro. Num Pages: 288 pages, 203 illustrations, 184 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACND; AFC; AFKG; AFW; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 311 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1866.
- Publisher
- Skira
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788857224749
- ISBN
- 9788857224749
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.09
€ 37.99
€ 32.09
Paperback. Illustrates how diverse the Republican forces were, drawn from loyal elements of the Spanish army that rejected the appeal of rebel generals, a range of volunteer regional units and political militias, and supported by volunteers from many other countries, including Great Britain, France and Germany, in units known as the International Brigades. Illustrator(s): Walsh, Stephen. Series: Men-at-Arms. Num Pages: 48 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWP; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 246 x 2. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782007852
- ISBN
- 9781782007852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.33
€ 15.99
€ 12.33
Paperback. The Spanish Civil War, 1936-39, was the curtain-raiser to World War II, and the major international event of the 1930s. Featuring specially commissioned full-color artwork, this book depicts the fighting men of the Nationalist forces that strove to take control of Spain alongside their German and Italian allies. Illustrator(s): Walsh, Stephen. Series: Men-at-Arms. Num Pages: 48 pages, Illustrations (black and white, and colour). BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 124 x 3. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782007821
- ISBN
- 9781782007821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.32
€ 15.99
€ 12.32
Paperback. This book chronicles the demise of the so-called leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 225 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804781503
- ISBN
- 9780804781503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.10
€ 33.99
€ 31.10
Paperback. An entertaining new book about the trials and tribulations of an English couple trying to scratch a living in the Andalucian countryside in the late '80s. They relate their amusing (and occasional painful) experiences - and those of their pets. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; BT; VSW; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 304. Very good copy with light shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Survival Books
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KCW0018229
- ISBN
- 9781901130492
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
hardcover. A literary approach to Roman philosophy demonstrating the relevance of gender, feminism and rhetoric to the history of the self. Num Pages: 322 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; DSBB; HBLA; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 283 x 25. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107105966
- ISBN
- 9781107105966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.38€ 118.93
€ 121.38
€ 118.93
Paperback. A general historical introduction to the Muslims of Medieval Italy which presents specific information regarding social, religious, administrative, political, cultural, artistic and intellectual questions. Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HRAX; HRH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 580. Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. 336 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. A general historical introduction to the Muslims of Medieval Italy which presents specific information regarding social, religious, administrative, political, cultural, artistic and intellectual questions. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HRAX; HRH. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 17. Weight: 580.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748620081
- ISBN
- 9780748620081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.64
€ 37.99
€ 34.64
paperback. This is a translation of the 1867 work by Alexander Hold, 'Geschichte der Feldzugs in Italien 1866', which describes in detail the campaign of the previous year, fought between the armed forces of the Austrian empire and the kingdom of Italy in the Austrian province of Venetia, the southern Tyrol and on the Adriatic Sea. Translator(s): Sutherland, Stuart. Num Pages: 152 pages, maps, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBW; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Helion & Company United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906033620
- ISBN
- 9781906033620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.91
€ 32.99
€ 23.91
Paperback. Disagreeing with interpretations of the Fascist movement and regime as "revolutionary" and "leftist", this work, while not ignoring the importance of ideology, sees Fascism in Italy as a bourgeois response to the challenge of proletarian revolution and an approach to the problem of conservative control in an era of mass politics. Num Pages: 208 pages, Map. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JPA; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Third
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803266223
- ISBN
- 9780803266223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.35
€ 20.99
€ 20.35
Paperback. Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino set out to destroy the Mafia. In 1992, aware that the magistrates didn't have the support of the Italian government, the Mafia assassinated them. The public outcry demanded their work was completed, which led to the toppling of crucial political alliances. Num Pages: 480 pages, port. BIC Classification: 1DST; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099594918
- ISBN
- 9780099594918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.12
€ 16.99
€ 13.12
Hardback. A comprehensive selection of Professor Alexander's papers that consider Italian manuscript illumination through the medieval and Renaissance periods. The volume includes a new essay on marginal illustrations as well as older papers which discuss some of the most celebrated works of the period, and have been revised and updated here. Num Pages: 424 pages, 265 illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; WFU. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 179 x 243 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1250.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Pindar Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781899828463
- ISBN
- 9781899828463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 189.92
€ 189.92
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 65 photos. BIC Classification: 1DSE; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 258 x 196 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1078.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Ten Speed Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607747611
- ISBN
- 9781607747611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.35
€ 33.99
€ 22.35
Paperback. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1QDAR; HBA; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801482472
- ISBN
- 9780801482472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 48.32
€ 53.99
€ 48.32
Hardback. Brown demonstrates how Florentine thinkers used Lucretius--earlier and more widely than has been supposed--to provide a radical critique of prevailing orthodoxies. She enhances our understanding of the "revolution" in sixteenth-century political thinking and our definition of the Renaissance within newly discovered worlds and new social networks. Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674050327
- ISBN
- 9780674050327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 43.45
€ 52.99
€ 43.45
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635057
- ISBN
- 9780691635057
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.06
€ 186.06
Hardback. Deals with the scholarship on the courts, court art and noble values. This book not only considers the role of artists, but explores the distinctive uses to which art was put at the courts, from the smaller duchies and princely courts of Ferrara, Mantua and Urbino to the larger courts of Naples and Milan. Series: Renaissance Art. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Laurence King Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780677408
- ISBN
- 9781780677408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 19.46
€ 32.99
€ 19.46
Hardback. The lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern Europe. This study examines how humanist authors received, criticized, and rewrote the traditional stories of exemplary virtue for patrons and audiences who were surprisingly open to their textual experiments. Num Pages: 544 pages, 6 photos, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 34. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231129763
- ISBN
- 9780231129763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.08€ 60.48
€ 78.08
€ 60.48
Hardback. Internal crises and external conflict made stability a rare feature of city life in the northern Italian communities of the Renaissance. Negotiating Survival follows the many twists and turns of strategy and vision that enabled the republic to emerge transformed but intact from the enormous strains created by the Great Schism. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies. Num Pages: 283 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611472332
- ISBN
- 9781611472332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.87
€ 128.87
Paperback. The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold leaf. This book deals with his life and work. Translator(s): Schneider, Deborah Lucas; Most, Glenn W.; Psoinos, Paul. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3D; BGH; HBLA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 295 x 19. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287594
- ISBN
- 9780520287594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 20.89
€ 27.99
€ 20.89
Paperback. The tenth edition of this accessible, scholarly guide to the city of the Renaissance. An essential handbook for any traveller who wants to fully understand the development of Italian art history. Editor(s): Barber, Annabel. Series: Blue Guides. Num Pages: 408 pages, B/W with photographs, diagrams, floor plans and full-colour maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 453.
- Publisher
- Blue Guides Limited of London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Tenth
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905131525
- ISBN
- 9781905131525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.87
€ 26.99
€ 23.87
Paperback. This guide covers the major cities of Tuscany as well as its capital Florence; the cradle of the Renaissance. Full-colour throughout with detailed mapping and diagrams. Series: Blue Guides. Num Pages: 640 pages, full colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1DST; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Publisher
- Blue Guides Limited of London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Fifth
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905131266
- ISBN
- 9781905131266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.10
€ 23.99
€ 18.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 104 pages, colour photos & maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 103 x 7. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- JPM Publications SA,Switzerland Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9782884525039
- ISBN
- 9782884525039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.99€ 6.92
€ 6.99
€ 6.92
Paperback. Num Pages: 104 pages, colour photos & maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 108 x 6. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- JPM Publications SA,Switzerland Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9782884524483
- ISBN
- 9782884524483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.00
€ 7.00
Paperback. Sifts through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. This book retells their stories in their own style, giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflicts, and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture. Editor(s): Maalouf, Amin. Translator(s): Rothschild, J. Series: Saqi Essentials S. Num Pages: 312 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1FB; HBJD; HBJF1; HBLC; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Saqi Books London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780863560231
- ISBN
- 9780863560231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.08
€ 21.99
€ 20.08